Re: [Freedos-devel] gcc-ia16 packaging

2018-10-17 Thread Eric Auer
> You can easily open it in DOS using 7z. Then I would suggest using the .7z file format in the first place, which probably also saves more space and makes it more recognizable how to open the file. Of course one has to take care to stay within the DOS 7z support, assuming that DOS 7z is older

Re: [Freedos-devel] gcc-ia16 packaging

2018-10-17 Thread Mateusz Viste
On Wed, 17 Oct 2018 22:13:51 +0200, Eric Auer wrote: > When you use LZMA, the only "easy" way to open it in DOS is to install > it :-! You can easily open it in DOS using 7z. Mateusz -- FreeDOS is present on the USENET, too! alt.os.free-dos ___ Free

Re: [Freedos-devel] gcc-ia16 packaging

2018-10-17 Thread Mateusz Viste
On Wed, 17 Oct 2018 22:24:02 +0200, Pär Moberg wrote: > On a "just a feeling" level I would like it to be uncompresseable with > 16-bit tools but that is like I said just a feeling, nothing big. The program (gcc) is not 16-bit, hence it has no value being on a 16-bit machine. Requiring a 32-bit P

Re: [Freedos-devel] gcc-ia16 packaging

2018-10-17 Thread Pär Moberg
Just leaving my two cents here: If I remember correctly, that Info-Zips unzip 6.0 does support the higher compression quality of 7-zips Deflate routine. So you can compress better zips with 7zip than with some of the other archivers, although they might have caught up by now. On a "just a feeling"

Re: [Freedos-devel] gcc-ia16 packaging

2018-10-17 Thread Eric Auer
Hello TK Chia, about your advanced compression for the 16 bit gcc zip: > Yes, Info-Zip does not yet support LZMA compression... > I made a deliberate choice to use LZMA compression... Please be more specific about the amount of space saved. It would be very convenient to be able to do things